


The bottom line… When it comes to pennies, there are lots of valuable errors to look for! These are the penny errors you should be looking for - and their current value: Penny Error Coins Penny Error Coin Value Floating Roof Lincoln Memorial Pennies $1+ (officially, these are not categorized as errors or varieties but are worth mentioning) Large Date vs. They range in value from a few dollars to as much as $200,000+ and include a smorgasbord of cool rarities and unusual pieces. Indeed, Mr.Pennies offer a plethora of errors and varieties - some are fairly common and some are extremely rare. As of 2009 there had been no reports of anyone's finding any of the three rare pennies, but Scott Travers may never find out what happened to them, as it's quite possible the valuable cents ended up lost, squirreled away as oddities by people who didn't know their true value, or retrieved and sold by lucky finders unaware the coins were deliberately placed into circulation. Lincoln cent), but Travers said that although the proffered coins were real, none of them was the one he released into circulation. Within a few weeks, seven people came forward saying they had found the $1,000 coin (i.e., the 1909-S V.D.B. Lincoln cent to buy a bottle of water from a different vendor in Times Square, then walked a block to a newsstand where he used the 1908-S Indian Head cent. Travers said he put theġ914-D Lincoln cent into circulation on 12 April 2006 when he purchased a pretzel from a food stand outside the NASDAQ offices in Times Square, and a few days later he spent the 1909-S V.D.B. (In the conditions released by Travers, at the time those coins were worth roughly $200, $1,000, and $300, respectively.) Mr. one-cent pieces nearly one hundred years old: a 1908-S Indian Head cent, and 1909-S VDB and 1914-D Lincoln cents. The three coins Scott Travers spent were all relatively low-mintage U.S. "I'm planting a seed, and I hope that a new generation of people will come to appreciate the history that coins represent," he said. Travers, a 44-year-old former vice president of the American Numismatic Association and author of The Coin Collector's Survival Manual, decided to mark National Coin Week in mid-April 2006 by deliberately spending three valuable old pennies as he made routine purchases around Manhattan. To help introduce more people to "the magic of coin collecting," Scott A. The last of these routes rarely yields lucky finds anymore, as collectors and treasure-seekers have long since plucked every coin of significant value from circulation, but in April 2006 the odds of making such an advantageous discovery got a little bit better. Origins: One of the many windfall schemes that some of us dream about in our idle moments is fortuitously turning up a rare old coin worth hundreds or even thousands ofĭollars - perhaps through discovering one stashed away by a relative who has forgotten about it, uncovering one hidden beneath some dirt or debris, or simply finding one in a handful of change.
